Sir Max Beerbohm

Born 1872 · Died 1956

From London, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom · Writes fiction and nonfiction

Quotes

“The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.”
The Spirit of Caricature 1901
“Most women are not so young as they are painted.”
A Defense of Cosmetics 1895
“The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”
Zuleika Dobson, Chapter IV
“To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.”
And Even Now
“Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.”
Zuleika Dobson, Chapter XV

Books by Sir Max Beerbohm in the order they were published, from Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen (1896) to React (2019).